ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: The interior ministry and the British High Commission on Saturday released the details of working arrangements agreed between the Pakistani law enforcement agencies and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) team of the Scotland Yard assisting the investigation into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto outside Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on Dec 27.
Following is the text of the arrangement:
“At the request of the Pakistan government, New Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO 15) is deploying a team of investigators to support the Pakistan law enforcement agencies responsible for investigating the death of Benazir Bhutto. The principal purpose of the SO 15 deployment is to assist the local authorities in providing clarity regarding the precise cause of Ms Bhutto’s death.
“The team will provide forensic expertise and other investigative assistance as appears appropriate to the senior officer detective superintendent MacBrayne who will lead the MPS team. The MPS officers will assistant and report to the Pakistan senior investigators. The primacy and responsibility for the investigation remains with the Pakistan authorities.
“The MPS team will consist of experts in the areas of crime scene investigation, forensics, and evidence analysis.”
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has already said that the UK investigators were not working independently and they had only been assigned the task to determine the cause of the death and “not the perpetrators, financiers, executioners or organisers of the conspiracy”.
